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  • November 18, 2011
Unemployment down to 10.3%

The state's jobless rate fell 0.3 percentage points over the month.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2011
Florida housing starts down 86%

A new report says Florida has a ways to go in its recovery effort.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2011
FDOC elects to join Teamsters

A majority of Florida Dept. of Corrections employees voted to unionize.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2011
Tampa HMO ordered liquidated

Quality Health Plans will be liquidated per a court order issued this week.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2011
Tough year might end with happy news

This could be a good year for bonuses, despite the recession.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2011
Gulf Coast Week: Nov. 18

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2011
Punta Gorda firm attracts $1.5M

A Mich.-based acquirer will invest $1.5 million in the firm's operations.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2011
Ft. Myers sales slow, prices up

Home sales down 4.7%, median sale price up 10.5% in October.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2011
New Junior Achievement CEO

Anne Frazier is the Fort Myers non-profit's new president and CEO.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2011
Sarasota real estate sales up

The market saw 592 closings in October, up 25% over the year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2011
New-home supply dwindles

You'd never know the economy was in a funk judging by new-home statistics in the Fort Myers-Naples area recently published by Metrostudy.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2011
At Wine Festival, party before you party

This year at the Naples Winter Wine Festival, there's going to be a special party before the party.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 17, 2011
Entrepreneurs unite to bring leverage to an industry

Sarasota entrepreneur Jesse Biter, who sold a $16 million auto sales software business last year, didn't sit on the sidelines for long.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 16, 2011
Health care costs grow 6% in '11

A survey of Florida business owners says costs went up this year.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 16, 2011
Naples idea conference cancelled

An annual meeting of the minds in Naples is cancelled for 2012.

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